-Poul Anderson, "Starfog" IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, June 2012), pp. 709-794 AT p. 717.
Interstellar travel has not yet started around 2055 in "The Saturn Game" but must start not too long after that. Call 2100 a round figure - in which case 7100 as the date for "Starfog" in Sandra Miesel's Chronology of Technic Civilization is spot on. The Technic History covers just over five thousand years from the exploration of the Solar System in the twenty-first century to the exploration of the Cloud Universe star cluster at the far end of another spiral arm of the galaxy in the seventy-second century. Often we focus on environmental details in a particular period but sometimes we contemplate the history in its entirety.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I like to think of the FTL hyperdrive being invented in the timeline of the Technic series sometime around AD 2100. That would give about four centuries for the Breakup, the founding of many colonies, the rise of the Polesotechnic League, and the beginning of its terminal decline by 2500.
Ad astra! Sean
Paul - "2011"? Typo, presumably?
Yes. I usually get figures wrong.
Happens to all of us. ;)
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